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UMass Economics
@UMassEcon
May 19
"How to save the middle class" Arin Dube, wrote a Boston Globe op-ed on standards for wages (beyond the minimum wage: "minimum pay requirements for jobs based on occupation and industry") and how Massachusetts is due to revisit its wage laws. archive.ph/p05s6
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Apr 27
"Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball" Robert Pollin, pens the first of a two-part series that covers President Donald Trump’s "devastating cuts to the already dysfunctional U.S. health care system and the need for Medicare for All."
Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball
From dollarsandsense.org
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Apr 27
"America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Really a Pay Crisis" In a piece for TIME, Arin Dube, writes, "The issue underpinning America’s cost-of-living crisis isn’t just rising prices.
America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Really a Pay Crisis
From time.com
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Apr 27
Nancy Folbre, has written a piece for The American Prospect examining a new book by Arindrajit Dube, "The Wage Standard." "Arindrajit Dube has written a lucid, empirically rigorous, and—in the current political climate—audacious book.
What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage? - The American Prospect
From prospect.org
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Apr 27
Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk, , have written a new piece for Project Syndicate. "As the world is plunged into another energy crisis, market allocation is leading to grossly unjust outcomes, as the rich outbid the poor.
The World Needs an Oil Buyers’ Club
From project-syndicate.org